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While highlighting plans for improved border security and migration policies, President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon, meeting in Mexico City Thursday, also pledged cooperation across the border on measures to address climate change and energy resources.

While highlighting plans for improved border security and migration policies, President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon meeting in Mexico City Thursday, also pledged cooperation across the border on measures to address climate change and energy resources.

It’s deja vu all over again in Mexico as the legislature readies to debate whether to reform the country’s national oil company.

It’s deja vu all over again in Mexico as the legislature readies to debate whether to reform the country’s national oil company.

Felipe Calderon, Mexico’s apparent president-elect, holds a resume that on paper would appear to give him an edge in boosting Mexico’s energy fortunes. Harvard-educated and well-connected, Calderon served as energy minister under outgoing President Vicente Fox for nine months (see NGI, June 7, 2004; Sept. 15, 2003). But if Calderon succeeds Fox into office this December, his impressive credentials are expected to matter very little in a country apparently more concerned about national pride than its stagnant energy resources.

Felipe Calderon, Mexico’s popular and vocal energy minister, submitted his resignation last week following a political rally in which some of his supporters urged him to run for president in 2006. President Vicente Fox, who had appointed Calderon in September 2003, said the rally was “both out of place and the wrong time.”

Felipe Calderon, Mexico’s popular and vocal energy minister, submitted his resignation Monday following a political rally in which some of his supporters urged him to run for president in 2006. President Vicente Fox, who had appointed Calderon in September 2003, said the rally was “both out of place and the wrong time.”

Felipe Calderon, Mexico’s apparent president-elect, holds a resume that on paper would appear to give him an edge in boosting Mexico’s energy fortunes. Harvard-educated and well-connected, Calderon served as energy minister under outgoing President Vicente Fox for nine months (see Daily GPI, June 2, 2004; Sept. 9, 2003). But if Calderon succeeds Fox into office this December, his impressive credentials are expected to matter very little in a country apparently more concerned about national pride than its stagnant energy resources.